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In the years between 1992 and 2008 when a formal apology was finally delivered to the Indigenous Stolen Generations, the issue of Indigenous child removal cast a long shadow over Australian culture and society.In 2009 a further national apology -to former child migrants and institutionalised children -was delivered; and, in February 2012, a report of a Senate Committee of inquiry into past adoption practices recommended a national apology to the victims of past adoption in this country.The space of apology has been transformed from one focused on Indigenous-settler relations to a crowded space focused on the suffering associated with child removal.In this paper, we consider the unfolding politics of reconciliation in Australia, and its progressive de-Indigenisation.We conclude that the progressive universalisation of suffering in Australian apology politics, which comes at the cost of sustained engagement with the issues of race-and gender -based power, is damaging to the project of reconciliation and points to an immaturity in Australian politics which must be overcome if genuine reconciliation is to be achieved.
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